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Silver Bullet said:
This is one of the most confusing posts I've ver read. I have really no idea what you are saying.
I have not noticed that the throttle becomes unresponsive when the brake is applied, nor does that make any sense. I have, during emergency braking when brake and clutch were all the way in, accidentally also depressed the gas (because my right foot was mashing the brake so quickly and it overlapped with the gas pedal) and I can tell you with certainty that the throttle revved up to 5000 RPM - clearly not unresponsive.
If you are swerving, as long as the car is travelling in the direction the steering wheel is pointing, regardless of what you are doing with gas and brake, PSM will not intervene. If you are swerving and the car is not going in the direction that the wheel is pointing, PSM will intervene (though not immediately - it takes a fraction of a second) to "right" the car.
Sorry, you're probably right..., lemme try to simplify.
You have TMS (Traction Managment System) and you have PSM on the Turbo.
If you are headed toward a wall then it's simple: hit the brakes.
In the following cases you are steering back and forth with the swerve trying to stay pointed on the road while applying gas, applying brake, or no brake and no gas:
If you are on a road or a track you might decide to _drive_ and steer your way out of the swerve by keeping your foot on the gas and letting TMS and PSM work to try to get the car to where you are steering.
If you steer back and forth in the swerve to stay on the road _by_rolling_to_a_stop_ and take your foot off the gas, and keep it off the brake, what happens? Does the car "throttle up" as needed? Does it apply brakes as needed? Does TMS work as needed?
If you steer back and forth into the swerve while hitting the brakes _intending_to_stop_, what happens? Does the car throttle up as needed? Does it hit the brakes as needed? (yes!). Does TMS do it's thing?
My theory is to keep foot _at least slightly_ on the gas and computer will know you intend to drive and will help you drive by using all systems to stabilize your Turbo.
Take foot off gas and just steer which systems come into play? Seems like engine will not "throttle up" because there's no foot on the gas.
Put brakes on and steer back and forth into swerve: is it true that the car thinks you want to stop ASAP and will NOT use any engine power to re-establish traction and keep car pointed where you're steering it?
Which is the best thing you could do?
1. keep foot on gas because it's telling engine you intend to drive and you want it to stay involved and power the efforts to re-establish traction.
2. put foot on brake because it's telling car you want to stop (no engine involvement).
3. feet off both pedals and just steer car where you want it. Since, given that quirk that brake cancels gas, presumably engine power is NOT cut and will participate in tryin to regain traction.